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HE PIC KENS SE INELORN.Entered April 23, 1903 at Pickens, 8. 0., as second class matter, under act of Congress of March 8, 1879.VC 1XXXVI PICKENS, SOUTI-I CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1906. N01HMAM, KING OF TYRE.The Phoenietan Monnreh and is tfort to hsmitaite the Deity.Hiram, the Phocenician monarch,strOve to imitate God by eorecting fourmighty pillarn ulponl which he causedseven heavens-apartmetsto be built.The first was constructed of glass, 50Cby -500 yards, storing therein mock ilntges of the sun, moon and stars. TheRecond compartnment of iron, 1,000 hy1,000 yards, was tho receptacle of proclous stones, causilng a terrifle noiscresembling thunder when they crashedagainst each other id th ei caisiement ofthe inclosure. The third chamber wasof lead, 1,500 by 1,500 yards. Thefourth was of tin, 2,000 by 2,000 yards.The fifth was of copper, 2, 'o by 2,500yards. The sixth was of s Iver, 3,000by 3,000 yards. The seventith was ofgold, 3,50) by1 3,500 yards, containingprecious stones4, pearls wi a magniilcent throne. A channel of water separated the apartments.Iliram, imita tinlg the royal i plendorof the court oi' Klig Solomon, surrounded himself by the grandest conccivahlo .dispiay of niagiifleence. Inthe seventh apartment was stationed agolden bed, the coriers of which wereset in~ pearls without value in all theworld, sparlding forth heanttiful flashesresembling lightning, which spreadwonder aind terror amiong his subjects.Tli prophet Ezekiel was ordered toappear before Hiram, who, at a lossas to how to reach the seven heavenswherein the monarch presided, wastrausl)ortel into his castle by the locksof his hair. Upon, perceiving the d.viino messenger Iliram trembled. "Whoart thou?" thundered th" Indignant harbingor of futtuyc, ovniets. "Why dostthou ikoast? Ai-t thou not born of .woman's womb?""I am," replied Hliram, "but I livcforever. Like God dwelling over wiaters, dwell I. Like him reigning ovelseven heavens, I rule in soven apartments. As God is surrounded by lightIing and thunder, so am I. God hasstars in heaven; so have I. Many sovereigns have succumbed to mortalityand I still exist. Twenty-one kings othe house of Isrgel and David, twent3prophets and ten high priests have doparted this earth, but I outlive thenall."- "Why dost thou boast?" again do.mandled Ezekiel."Because thou didst supply thccedars for Solomon's temple? ThUPuts me in mind of a subject who proparod a splendid garment for his sovereign, and as often as the servanigazed at the glorious pieco of work htboastingly remarked, '"This is m3manufacture,' until the king, observ.Ing his vanity, tore it off in disgustSuch will be thy lot. The temphwhich thou helpest to build will lxdestroyed. What will then becomo o1thy pride 7'Where They Have Time to e PoliteCopenhagen, Denmark, is a city olcanals and cleanliness-a land of pur<delight, 'reo from beggars, orgatgtl'ders and stray dogs. The inhabitants thereof are born courteous an(seen never to have recovered from th<habit.When a passenger boards a car itCopOuiha gon he exchanges greetingiwith tho -conductor. A gentleman o1leaving the car usually lifts his hat itacmowledgmnent of a salute from thalofficial. When a fare is paid1 thoeconductor drops it into his cash boxthanks the passenger and gives hina little paper recei1)t.Ic ot~ers chango wvith a prelimninar3"fle so. goodl," and the passenger accepts with thanks. If, in additiontransfers are r'equ ired compi mnentar13exchanges go on indefinitely. Yelthere is always time enough in Copenhagen..-Caroline Domett in Four TractsNews.Scotland andl Wnisky."One of the grossest milsconceptiomfrom which Scotlantd suffers," says Lwriter, "is that her national drink 1!and always has bean whisky. But thiiis just as untrue, neither more nor less- as that the ujutional garb of Scotlamnis th'e kilt. Whisky, like the kilt, is ipurely Celtic or highland producit, amup to the middle of the eighteenth contury it was just as unfamiliar in thilowlands as the clan tartans. It wasoniy after tihe '45 that the highlandersbegan to settle in the lowlands anmbring their whisky with them, but before that the natjonal drink of thxlowlandmers had1( been ale. Tlamn-o'Shanter and Souter Johnny got 'rearinf ou' not on whisky3, but on strongbeer."* ~The lFate.Frable teaches that tihe fates wer<three goddesses, holding, one a .syindkanother a distaff and the third a palof shears. Trhey spun the thread ohuman life, then cut it off, and men'destiny was either hnpp~y or iunhnpp:according to the texture of the wocemployed by these inexorable deitiemight it not be said that here beloswe play more or less the part of thfates? It is we who, in some degretmold our own destinies,.-PittsburPress.Another. Shool.A"Yos," Bald the waiter, "this cafe Ithoroughly up to -date. Wo cook beteetricity.'"Is that Ao?" said the guest, pointinto a platter. "Then will you plas* ~ give that beefsteak another shock?1"- Detroit Free Press.Shaivinga."By 'the great omelet!I" clucked thold hen, as she cuddled down upon ththirteen eggs, "this nest is made cexcelsior. No doubt about it, this Igoing to be a shaving set."-WatsonMagazine.'is not necessity, but opinion, themakes mnen miserable, and when wo to be fancy sick thero's nfo canA.~riMA sUFFimiit8 StiUlDE ) KNOWTHIS.Foley's Honey and Tar has 'tir(.1many cass of asthmait that weio colnsid.n rd hodoless. Mrs. Adolph Buesing,701 Vest Tpird St., Cavonport., Iowawrites: "A severe cold con Iratc( twelveyears ago W1as neglected utidil it finallygrow into asthima. The boat medicalskill available could not give mao morethan temporary relief, Foley's Honeyand Tar was recommended and on fistycent bottlie entirely rcod me of asthatwhich had been growing on me( fod twelveyears;. If I had taken it at the start, Iwould have neon saved yoars of stlforing." Pickeis Drug Co.THE REAL VALUE.Htow All J41terature In Contained In aFew Great Dooka.Young people must every now andthen hear it said or see it written thattill the real value in literaturn can beput upon a small Shelf-that 11i to say,the really important part of all that iswritten 1. conitined Iln a very fewgro: books, all the rest4 being eitheruntimitiportait or dii'erent ways of saylng the mtte things that have bensn!d before. The statement, of course,is not true if ft be taken literally.There are certainly many hundreds,perhaps thousands, of books that contain original thoughts or experienephthat are truly valuable; but,. generallyspealcing, the best part (f all that hasx-en written is to be found ti a fowvolumes. To understand how this is- ossible we must remember that teur.ly nil rules are the sino as other andsimpler rules. In arithmetic, for e*111110, the whole science consists ofonly four simple ways of treating numhe{rs. We can add, subtract, multiplyand divide, and that is all we (ill doto numbers. The rest of the book laonly the working but of these fourrule,; thus all of the arithmetic couldeasily be put into a little page thatone could carry in the vest pocket.All behavior, all right living, is alsoset forth in a few simple laws. Theseillustrations will show what is meantby saying that all literature is coutained in a few great books. The Bibloand the works of a few famous poetsand essayists contain all human wisdom, and these are within the reach ofevery purse.-St. Nicholas.Ancient Tricks.The arts of juggling were, as hasbeen proved by learned writers. ofhigh antiquity. The Ilirpini, who livednear Rome, jumped through burningcoals; women In early times were icetmtomed to walk over burning coals inCappadocia, and the exhibition of ballsand cups is often' mentioned in theworks of the anclents. It was as far backas the third century that one Fernus, orFirmius, who endeavored to nake himself emperor in Egypt, suffered a tmilthto forge Iron on an anvil phiced on lisbreast, and'rope dancers with balancIng poles are mentioned by Petroniusand others, while the various feats ofhorsemanship exhibited in our eirc:usespassed, in the thirteenth cettury, fromEgypt to the Iyzantine court andthence over all Europe.rCISh:0It8LUDERB8HARPENING A PENCIL,n iThis Ac', It In M1l, Youi Ma> Heada Mlan'ii Ciuraeter.No womitli 0hu011M ilarry 11 1111111 tillshe has eent hi:m sharpam a lead pentcll. She en tell by tho way he doesIt whether ho a sit;el to her or not.Iere ara lt' tInfillile rlies fOr herglildance lit the mattr:The itan who hold(1: the Poinlt towardl'(him and close tp agaiust his shirtfront Is slow and likes to have secreti.Ile is the kind o1' mon who when thedienrest girl it the world finds out thatthere are "other.;" and asks him whothey are and what he imeans by callIng on thorn will is4:sutmb lilt nir of excesslve digit(y.The man who holds the pciell outat arm's length and whittles away atit, lilt or miss, Is iimIlsive, jolly, goodnatured and gencrous.HI whoJleaves a blunt point is (11111a1(n ploldling iid. will never amountto mi1uch(. le ia really good leartel,but 111nds his (chief' j)lens4Uiro in theComlonipIae things of life.Ire who sharpens his penCIl On inchor more from the poiit is high strungand imnaginative and subject tQ exuberiat flights of fnetcy. 110 will 0hWays he secking to mount upward aindnCcomplish things in the higher regions of business and art, and 1isiwife's greatest tioublo will b)0 to holdhinm down to earth nnd prevent hisflying otY altogether on a taugent.- Tho mit who sbu rpons his pniell illaroun(d smoothly and eemnly, as thoughIt were planed offl in an autoiaticsharpener, Is systematIe and slow toaiger, but ho is so undoviating front ailxed prinelple that he would drive awoman with a sensitive temperamentto distraction in less thain six months.On the contrary, ho who jumps litand leaves the sharpened wood as jaggod as SLAW teeth iroind ti top tltasa m1isty temper and will spun.k thebaby on the sligteLt provocItot.There are certain women who eanmannge that kind of imtn beautifuly,however, and if he gets a wife with acalnm, persuasive eye he will conodown from hin high horse lit a fowminutes and he a meek as a lamb.The man who doesn't stop to polishthe polmit of lead 011oc tle wood Is cutaway litis a streak of coarseness In hisIe who shaves off the lead till theI poit is like a needle is retied, dellento and seisitivo. ie will not belikely to nmeomplish so much as hismiore commoti brother, but he will novor shock you and is without doubt ngood min to Ito to.-New York Press.DeE1S1O of the B1nth.One strange feature In the advancof civilization has been the deellim othe bath. Washing In the golden ngof Greece and itome was a flne artand baths wero built with as mueleare as temples. There has been i rovlval In this entury of public bathbut from fn aesthetic point of viesthey cannot compare with thoso ofbarbarons age. Tlhls is not an age owashers.--London Lady.13 aro bet ter prnipare'd to su pplIy yoiaitit na Re(~1.l{.venabuhle Disc Plowvs, I(o Rest Dise Harr Vow on thei marketiver antd Syraicuse Troln Plows, McCice that they a regularly sold,rh are olferinug special pricos in manaingies arc g atting high and it willIN LDWPRICES,BLAZING METEORS.l'he Shoet Lived Splendor of a Shoot.ing Star.A small body as largo as a pavingstone or not as large as a marble Ismoving round the sun. Just as amighty pjlalet re'volves in nll ollipse., 1;othis smiall object will move round andround in an ellipse, with the sun in thefocus. Thore are at the pre;ent moment inconceivable rgyrIads of suchmeteors moving In thuis manner. Theyare too small and too distant for ourteleseopes, and we can never see themexcept under extraordinary eircumsitances.IAt the time we see the meteor ittraverses a distance of more thantwenty miles a second. Such a velocityis almost impossiblo near the earth'ssu'face. Tile resistanco of the a r wouldprevent it. Aloft in the emp ness ofspace there is no air to resist it.In the course of its wianderinmgs thebody may comei near the earth and'withim a few hundred miles of Its muirface, of course, begins to encounter theupper surface of the atmosphere withwhich the earth is inelosed. To a bodyImovilg with the appalling velocity ofa1 Imlete0or, it, plun1igei into the atmosphereis usually fatal. Even though the upper layers of air are excessively attenuated, yet they suddenly check thevelocity, almost as a rille bullet wouldbe checked when filred into water. Asa meteor rushes through the atmosphere the friction of the air warnis itssurface; gradually It becomes red hot,then white hot and is finally driven offinto the vapor with a brilliant light,while we on the earth, one or two hundred miles below, exclain:"Oh, lookI There is a shooting star."A FISH HOOK.The One You Should Huy nnd theTest You Should Try.The most common flaw In the temperof the book. Some - hooks are brittleand break easily. There are otherbooks still that bend, and bend so easily that they "straighton" on every bigfish, and yet other hooks that bend, butbend so hard that a big fish neverflexes them, and they only straightenand come away when the full tenslonof the line is laid upon them if caughton a tough snag or troe bough. Theselast are the hooks to buy-if you canfind them-and the hard breakingbooks classifies next in merit. Tests bythe eye are quite unieless, as so manybooks carry exactly tho sume tints lablue or black. Test the hook insteadby the hand, catehliug the polut in afirm bit of wood and trying It out -bothby the hiard, firm pull and by the jerk.Watch particulharly in this trial forI weakness at the foot of the barb, whereI the wire is apt to be attenuated overmuch and the whole polult give wayon a strong fish. empevbilly if hooked inI bone or very hard gristle. What vasty- depths of angling profanity, in spiritI if not iI word, have been stirred inr boat and on bank when tle ploinitlessi hook comes away from the hard playedr fish must be left to nemory.-OutingMagazine.iir wants4 ini all kimls of F':rm ImIfpleJ,wo' and~ fthreea horse.Su perior (Grain muIrill s is adkn I iowleormuack Motwers8, Rakes and Hay Preclines to mako room for our fall stopay you to examine our Paroid Roof--FOR TW-Endel's GrBegins Saturday,High GradFollowing our usal custom evorytire stock of High-Orade Clothing,:3 1-3 per cent lei than tho orginacloso our storo to mark our goods - tean figuro the price yourself, takoand the suit is yours. The entiro stoAT ONE-Th,This season's goods-Men'sing-Nothing Resved ia..,I eserved: Blac,suits. Every sale has a purppthis sale is to clean out every son hand and We have putl: thithem. You cannot buy the saprices anywhere in South CaroJuly 7th, at 9 a. m., for Twoiand bring the cash- --we will ymoney that you will go home IAll Clothing go in this saNo goods on approbation.No goods charged during tlAll alterations must be paidH. EndelThere are Pic1andFor a I)hsense, justfeatuire shatis what I riOnly thebe found inpatrons, theof my good work. I do tramiN. D. TAYLOFments at1laa is andI are' li a posIition to na~~ROWPICKEA VETERAN OF THIE BLACKHAWK, MEXICAN ANDTUE CIVIL WARS... ......... .. .CAPT. W. W. JACKSSufferings I Vere l'rotraeted and Severe--i-edkEvery Knon eedty 1111,A01u1 Relief-Serious Slomnach TroubleCured by Thres Blottles of l'eruna ICapt. W. W. J WakHon,7W5 0 H t., N. W.,Washington. 1). C., writos:"11 am eighty-throo years old, avoteran of the Black Hawk, Mexicanand the Civil Wars. I am by professiona physician, but abandonod the SmGo."Some years ago I was seriously af.fected with catarrh of the stomach.My sufferings were protracted andsevere. I tried every known remedywithout obtaining relie."In desperation I began the use ofyour Peruna. I began to realize Immediate though gradual improvement."Af ter the uso of three bottlos overyappearance of my complaint was removed, and I avo no hesitation in roe.ommonding It as an infallible remedyfor that disordor."-W. W. Jackson.Address Dr. S. B. Har tman, Presidentof The Hartman SanitariIn, Olumnbus, Ohio.Winnern."Did your liusband over bet on awinning horse?""Ohi. ye," answered young Mri. Tor-kins. "All the lorse4 Chiarley bets onwin at soimo time or another."-Washington Star.Not Exhausmted.She-Henry, l'in going to glvo you apicco of may mind. Ho--! thought I'dhad it all.-New York l'ross4.fThotm who alwiys crep airo the onlyones4 that n1ever fall,1l Farm ImpleITOlie!)ts thlan awe have ever be.Ien.(lged t' bie the bru*st,ises. We 1buy all thiese tools in ea rck,in-nno nn1d( tum niy.0 WEEKSeater SaleJuly 9, at 9 A. M.e Clothingsummer we will place on sale our n'TErouserp, White and Fanoy Vests titI price. It is not neccessary for us tobey nro marked in plain figres- -you>ff one thirndad pay uts the differeicek of ULOTHING goes in the sa10fURD LESS!Youths and Childrens' Clothks, Blues and Plaids and Fan yse. Our purpose in holdi[ngwmgi and summer suit we haveprices on them that will moveme grale of goods at thesema. The sale opens Saturday,Necks. Remember the pl1ac(eive you such values for yourLappy. Come!le, Nothing reservcd.is sale.for during this sale.12o South Main street,Greenvilee, S. C.:uresPhotographs!)tograph that is true in everyis the camera sees you, everyp and clear, every detail shownve.beut material that is used willmy work. My many Satisfiedr repeated orders, is an attestig and enlarging., Easley, S. C.80.0NS, S. C.